[$] OpenBMC, a distribution for baseboard management controllers

The IntelligentPlatform Management Interface (IPMI) is a set ofsystem-management-and-monitoring APIs typically implemented on servermotherboards via an embedded system-on-chip (SoC) that functionscompletely outside of the host system's BIOS and operating system.While it is intended as a convenience for those who must manage dozensor hundreds of servers in a remote facility, IPMI has been called outfor its potential as a serious hole in server security. At the2016 EmbeddedLinux Conference in San Diego, Tian Fang presented Facebook'srecent work on OpenBMC, a Linux distribution designed to replaceproprietary IPMI implementations with an open-source alternative builtaround standard facilities like SSH.